January 6, 2006

Chocolate idlee

Idlees form a very popular and familiar breakfast food in India. It is a very bland and easily digested food, because it is steamed and no ghee, oil, or spices are used in making it. I will write about the techniques associated with making soft and fluffy idlees some other time.

Have you ever made chocolate idlees at home? This was one of my (late) sister's most favorite breakfast variations? We all love this and makes it once in a while at home. Hope you would also like this. Here is the recipe details for chocolate idlee/idli.

Method: Beat up the egg well to froth and add sugar. Beat it well again till the sugar dissolves. Add the cocoa powder, bread rusk powder, butter, and salt and mix together well. Pour in enough milk to make it into a thick batter of pouring consistency similar to that of idlee batter. Grease the perforated idlee plate with melted ghee and fill them three-quarters with the batter. Pour water into the idlee vessel to the depth of 2 inches. Fit the plate on the inside projecting rim of the vessel. Heat the idlee vessel and when the water inside boils, keep the batter-filled plates, and cover the idlee vessel with its tight-fitting lid and steam for 30 minutes. Alternatively, you may also use greased small bowls, pour and fill the batter to three-fourths of the bowl, place those over the perforated idlee plate, and steam as mentioned before for nice semicircular shapes. Serve chocolate idlees either hot or cold as an excellent breakfast or as an evening snack.

VKN- how innovative. It is almost like a steamed pudding and it does not even have any other leavening agents. I usually have a lot of left-over bread. I will have to try this. Your son is lucky to be the taster and I bet he loves it.

Indira - thanks for visiting here after a long hibernation :-) I really feel soo happy today to see you around.

You just cant imagine how much I miss my sister. This is the only way I now know to immortalize all of my sister's ideas, her love, care, and creative thoughts. I will definitely write a separate post devoted to her with few of her pictures and other details on her impending B'day.

beesidhu - welcome to be our guest of the day. Glad to know that you had enjoyed your stay at My Dhaba. You will find all our previous recipes at our menu which you could locate at the top right corner. Cheers!

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